Responding and Resisting Against Trump’s Largest ICE Raid

Advancement Project stands with Morristown and against the Trump administration’s racial purge

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Advancement Project responded to Trump’s largest ICE raid, which took place in ground in Morristown, Tennessee, by sending our civil rights first-responders: Communicators, community lawyers, and rapid-response organizers. Since then, we are in solidarity with our immigrant brothers and sisters in Tennessee. Throughout the state, across the South, and everywhere in the country, the resistance is saying no to the Trump administration’s policies of hatred. We are fighting against a racial purge and for the ability of communities of color to thrive.

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